Teatime in Paris!

A Walk Through Easy French Pâtisserie Recipes.

Jill Colonna shows you the easy way to make the Parisians’ favourite afternoon treats – such as éclairs, tartlets, millefeuilles, ice cream, crêpes, madeleines, financiers, and macarons. She includes a bonus guide to many of Paris’s best pâtisseries, with historical gems and fun stories to the recipes plus her own tempting photos that will transport you to Paris.

Come and join in your quick tasting tour …

In Paris, at around 4pm, many Parisians sit down to enjoy le goûter – a late afternoon treat – with their favourite teatime pastry or light little cakes.

Whether it’s a tempting plate of the cutest little buttery financiers, an éclair or tartlet, the French love this “official” snack of the day.

As your teatime recipe guide, the book kicks off with some of the simplest and tastiest of treats. Why not stop for some Nun’s Pops?

Or imagine sipping on a most luxurious, pure and simple hot chocolate as if in one of Paris’s chic tearooms?

Enjoy a speculoos or cinnamon biscuit ice cream under the shade of a horse-chestnut tree or by the banks of the river Seine

Have fun making choux or éclair pastry and produce these dainty pistachio and cherry choux buns …

Make an impression with a crumble-topped vanilla cream puff, which is far from being plain vanilla and simpler than you think!

Taste a Parisian pastry favourite, based on the popular Ispahan: meet Religieuse Rose.

Another chapter is devoted to tartlets. This caramel, walnut and maple tartlet tastes even better next day.

And yes, there are more gluten-free macarons. This time let me tempt you with giant praline Paris-Brests …

If creating Parisian pâtisserie, like a light millefeuille, looks too hard – do not despair. Jill shares her enthusiasm and skills learned from the French to show you the easiest ways to make them.

She guides you through a straight-forward step-by-step process for each recipe.

As you walk through the book together, Jill also points out sweet Parisian streets with many of her favourite pâtisseries and tea salons where you can enjoy the best teatime treats in Paris.

We are thrilled to include a special Parisian artistic map of teatime pastries painted for the book – by talented watercolour artist, Carol Gillott.

Teatime in Paris will inspire you to get cracking the eggs and enjoy making your own delicious pastries with confidence and fun. Now you can add your own Parisian touch to 4 o’clock teatime – in no time!

Now let’s get cracking the eggs and bring some of sweet Paris to your kitchen.

Do you love French pâtisserie and secretly want to try it? Following Mad About Macarons, Jill Colonna shares her enthusiasm and skills learned from the French to help you crack patisserie easily at home in her new book, Teatime in Paris. With over 250 images and 50 typical teatime goûter recipes, enjoy tips, stories and a walks annex indicating where to taste the best pastries in Paris.

As you walk through each recipe together, Jill points out many Parisian sweet streets with many of the best patisseries and tea salons to enjoy them.

The final chapter culminates in a French tea party, mixing and matching all the previous sections’ recipes to create chocolate Earl-Grey tarts with orange liqueur profiteroles, Salted Caramel Religieuses, a Violet Saint-Honoré, plus many more treats to inspire you and get cracking the eggs!

Join in her confidence-building delicious recipe guide with fun background stories to the cakes, historical gems and baking tips to make wow-factor light pastry without much effort at home. Complete with tea-pairing suggestions, add your own Parisian touch to 4 o’clock teatime in no time.

Teatime in Paris Online Reviews

Read the detailed reviews of “Teatime in Paris”, many of which include sample recipes from the book.

The recipes in Teatime in Paris are very well laid out. I wish all cookbooks were this easy to follow. I also appreciate how accessible Jill makes French pastries … I adored this cookbook from start to finish.

As she walks us through recipes for the easiest of treats right through to to the crème de la crème, Jill points out some of the streets famous for the best patisseries in Paris, adding bits of history and plenty of baking tips, making this a recipe tour that’s both fun and accessible.

Jill shares the best and easiest ways to make French pâtisserie classics at home, from madeleines to éclairs. While some desserts may appear hard to make, Jill breaks down each recipe with a simple step-by-step, making them more than suitable to prepare for your own teatime, wherever you may be.

Jill is very down to earth ...The recipes are written simply and with lots of tips and advice so that you can make cakes that turn out like the pictures and taste absolutely scrumptious.

Janine Marshhttps://www.thegoodlifefrance.com/win-a-copy-of-teatime-in-paris/htmlThe Good Life France

It's not 'cos' I happened to paint the Paris pastry map endpapers, but I love this cookbook. I'd no clue I could bake but Jill's Teatime in Paris makes it easy to bake real French pastry. If I can do it so can you.

Jill’s style is light, humorous and most informative. Each recipe begins with a brief introduction, detailing its history and/or associations ... The photographs are mouthwatering, the recipes are varied and interesting; most importantly they’re actually DOABLE.

Teatime in Paris is chock full of tips, advice, references guides, clear step-by-step (recipe) instructions, and on-line stockists. For anyone who loves Paris, loves French, loves pastries, this pretty pink book is just the treat!

The book also includes a helpful chapter on baking equipment (the essential and the “little luxuries”) along with a list of stockists for ingredients and equipment in various countries. There’s also a useful “quick reference guide for egg whites”.

Jill’s pâte sucrée (sweet pastry or sweet tart dough) recipe yields the best pastry cases I’ve ever made. They’re sturdy enough for any filling, but just the right balance of crispy and tender when you bite into them. They also don’t get soggy over time.

I would love to make almost every single recipe in Teatime in Paris. This is really a feat in a cookbook as many times, I end up putting them back on the shelf when I am considering buying one, as there just aren’t enough recipes that appeal to me. Well, Teatime in Paris is a book I would buy; and many of my friends have perused the book and loved it, too.

Programmes like the Great British Bake Off have brought pastries like Paris Brest, macarons and all manner of fancy tartlets into the British consciousness as something that can be made at home. "Teatime in Paris!" gives you the tools to create these yourself and, if my experience is anything to go by, Jill's recipes make them much easier than you would think.

This pretty cookbook is as tempting as the recipes it describes, and suspect am going to earmark it as Gift of the Year for everyone I know who loves baking, eating and Paris (so that’s everyone). Rating 10/10

From cover-to-cover Jill Colonna introduces you to teatime in Paris, both as a dining experience to partake in, and as the maker of the fine delectable pastry recipes she shares. You’ll develop a base knowledge of French pastry concepts, learn how less sugar plays a supporting role, and gain confidence as a beginning baker or strengthen skills you already have.

Teatime in Paris brings the Pâtisserie to your kitchen, and no, you don't need to be a master chef to taste these treats in your own home. Thanks to Jill and her easy to follow directions - and with ingredients you probably already have in your own pantry.

It's nice to be able to impress your friends and family with a dessert that looks like it was made by a pastry chef, but I often feel those fancy French pastries are beyond my ability or available time. I had heard that chocolate pastry was really difficult to work with and ganache seems like a tricky thing to make, however nothing could be further from the truth as you can see from these Double Chocolate Tartlets from "Teatime in Paris!"